Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
In which case I'd be doing home schooling. Having a child frustrated and taking the same test over and over again accomplishes nothing but irritating the child and making them hate school. It's school, not boot camp.
But consider peer pressure.
"Hah !!! You have to stay back. I can go home and play with my playstation."

It's a good system the Japs have. It's gives the children the incentive to learn whilst they are in class, and it makes them proficient.

Your country is the same as mine, there is no incentive to learn, and we are churning out thousands upon thousands of uneducated kids.
Homeschooling is not the answer, because as usually is the case, the parents are a product of the same system, and don't have the knowledge themselves.
And then you have the parents that just don't care, you have the parents who both work and don't have the time.
My youngest daughter had math tutors, twice a week, but at $80 an hour most people can't afford that. I tried tutoring her, but even with my mathematical background, her work was beyond me.

I have a friend by the name of Sayoko, she is a music teacher, and was educated as a child in her own home country of Japan, and regularly tells me stories about "Night School". She treats both of her daughters the same as she was treated when she was a girl. She takes over after school, and "tops off" their daily lessons. Both of her girls top their school every year.

We have to do something that is better than what we are doing now. Our kids are falling behind the rest of the world in education, and we are creating a generation who rely on the "Fat of the Land". And that's not going to last forever.